About this Item: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. Type: Hard Back Pulitzer Prize-Winning author Richard Ford's third novel in this series (The Sportswriter and Indenpendence Day are the first two). First Printing. Hardcover Book and Dust jacket AS NEW. Jacket protected with clear archival wraps. A pristine book chronicling the life of Frank Bascombe, a New Jersey real estate agent and a man you may know as your next-door neighbor, facing personal and medical crises. His story resumes in the year 2000. Frank discovers that all he may have expected for his after age fifty-five years is in tatters. Hilarious, Harrowing, Surprising, and Proufound. 485 pages. 6.5 x 9.75. Alfred A Knopf Publishers, New York, 2006. Seller Inventory # 011462

About this Item: Bloomsbury, London, 2006. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First printing. Flat SIGNED by Richard Ford on the title page. This true first (precedes the American edition) has a satin textured ribbon book marker sewn in. Both the volume and mylar sleeved, unclipped, dust jacket are fine. Signed. Seller Inventory # 13030403

About this Item: Knopf. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 8vo. 485pp. Signed by author on title page. First printing. Near fine in near fine unclipped jacket. 10/24/06. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # mon0000108996

About this Item: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Signed by the author on a publisher's preprinted bookplate affixed to the half-title page; no date or inscription. Clean and bright; no owners' marks; some softening at spine ends and mild rubbing at spine ends and corners of hard cover, a tiny chip at the right front edge of the jacket and some shallow creasing around the spine heel and modest rubbing at bottom free corners of jacket, otherwise excellent, well-kept and attractive. Jacket is unclipped and now protected in a a clear sleeve. Signed by the Author. Seller Inventory # 069197

About this Item: Alfred A. Knopf, U.S.A., 2006. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford. Stated first edition. Hard cover, dust jacket, price unclipped. No writing/markings. Near fine book and jacket now in protective cover. Reviews "By the beautiful end of this novel--after all the heartbreak, the tentative steps toward renewal, the violent encounters with death, the struggle to overcome the terror of what is, after all, the ordinary hand that life deals each of us--Frank reaches a resolution that's powerfully moving. Mr. Ford's language, still laconic yet comfortably embracing; his account of the inexorability of modern life; his humane understanding of the puzzlement men face when trying to comprehend what has happened as they age; his tenderness in describing how women deal with men; his basic understanding of how we all got here and what we're all facing; his affirmation of the great need to truly live one's life out--they all add up to an experience that transcends ordinary reading. A candidate for the great American novel, the trilogy of Frank Bascombe books is a heartbreaking masterpiece." --Andre Bernard,New York Observer. Seller Inventory # 006163

About this Item: London : Bloomsbury, 2006. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 485 p. Summary; It is fall, 2000 and Frank Bascombe has arrived at a state of optimistic pragmatism that he calls the Permanent Period of life. Epic mistakes have already been made, dreams downsized, and Frank reflects that now at least there are fewer opportunities left in life to get things wrong. But the tranquillity he anticipated is not to be. In fact, as Thanksgiving dinner with his children and first wife nears, the Permanent Period proves as full of possibility as life had ever been. In his third Frank Bascombe novel, Richard Ford contemplates the human character with wry precision. Graceful, expansive, filled with pathos but irresistibly funny, "The Lay of the Land" is a modern American masterpiece. Subjects; Bascombe, Frank (Fictitious character)  Fiction. Middle-aged men  Fiction. Cancer  Patients  Fiction. American fiction  20th century. New Jersey  Fiction. Modern fiction. FICTION / General. Genre; Novel. 485 pp. Seller Inventory # 239944

About this Item: KNOPF, New York., 2006. Softcover. Condition: Fine. Advance Reading Copy/Proof. Advance Reader's Edition. "A holiday, and a novel, no reader will ever forget, this is at once hilarious, harrowing, surprising, and profound." Ships same or next business day. Book is tight, bright, and clean. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 479 pages. Seller Inventory # 2994

About this Item: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2006. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. "A holiday, and a novel, no one will ever forget - at once hilarious, harrowing, surprising, and profound. The Lay of the Land is astonishing in its own right and a magnificent expansion of one of the most celebrated chronicles of our time." Ships same or next business day. Spine is slightly loose, small bumps on spine ends; overall, book is tight, bright, and clean. Dust jacket has minimal edge wear. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 485 pages. Seller Inventory # 2995

About this Item: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2006. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Fine in an about fine dustwrapper with slight wear on the top edge. Seller Inventory # 370780

About this Item: Bloomsbury, London, 2006. Condition: Very fine in like dj. First Edition. First Edition. A Novel. Signed by Ford on the title-page. Third instalment of the story of Frank Bascomb begun with THE SPORTSWRITER and continued with INDEPENDENCE DAY. The UK edition preceded the U.S. edition. 8vo cloth. Seller Inventory # 23363

About this Item: London : Bloomsbury, 2006. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 485 p. Summary; It is fall, 2000 and Frank Bascombe has arrived at a state of optimistic pragmatism that he calls the Permanent Period of life. Epic mistakes have already been made, dreams downsized, and Frank reflects that now at least there are fewer opportunities left in life to get things wrong. But the tranquillity he anticipated is not to be. In fact, as Thanksgiving dinner with his children and first wife nears, the Permanent Period proves as full of possibility as life had ever been. In his third Frank Bascombe novel, Richard Ford contemplates the human character with wry precision. Graceful, expansive, filled with pathos but irresistibly funny, "The Lay of the Land" is a modern American masterpiece. Subjects; Bascombe, Frank (Fictitious character)  Fiction. Middle-aged men  Fiction. Cancer  Patients  Fiction. American fiction  20th century. New Jersey  Fiction. Modern fiction. FICTION / General. Genre; Novel. Hardcover Kg. 485 pp. Seller Inventory # 239944

About this Item: Bloomsbury, 2006. Hardback in Dust Wrapper. For more photos or information, use the «Ask Bookseller» button and I'll be pleased to help. The book is in stock and ships from the rustic nirvana of Peasedown St. John, near Bath, England from a long-established bookseller - guaranteed by my reputation and the UK Distance Selling Act. Remember! BUYING THIS BOOK means my Jack Russells get their supper! Condition :: Very Good - in Very Good DJ. Top and bottom edges of the text block a little tanned. Very gently bruised at tail and lower corners. A nice copy overall. Seller Inventory # 161726

About this Item: Bloomsbury, London, 2006. Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Trace of pencilled price on front free endpaper. Slight spine lean. Jacket slightly creased with a little scratching on the surface. First printing. Heavy item so postage for overseas orders will be more than the standard charge. Seller Inventory # 002644

About this Item: Bloomsbury, London, 2006. Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 485 pages. Boards have no wear, rubbing or soiling. Edges of dust jacket have light bumping. Dust jacket is unclipped. Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition. It is fall, 2000 - and in every household and bar across the USA the likely outcome of the hi-jacked Presidential election is being hotly debated. Frank Bascombe, fifty-five, settled in his realty business in Sea-Clift, New Jersey, has arrived at a state of optimistic pragmatism that he calls the Permanent Period of life. Epic mistakes have already been made; dreams downsized, and Frank reflects that now at least there are fewer opportunities left in life to get things wrong. But the tranquility he had anticipated is not to be. Who could have guessed that his second wife Sally would walk out on their apparently happy marriage? Or that, after all these years, he would be spending Thanksgiving dinner with first wife Ann and their two children? That Ann might still, after all, feel for him what he has never quite stopped feeling for her? Life in the Permanent Period proves as ambivalent, precarious and full of possibility as life had ever been. In his third Frank Bascombe novel, after the bestselling The Sportswriter and Independence Day, Richard Ford contemplates the human character with wry precision and luminous prose. Graceful, expansive, filled with pathos but irresistibly funny, The Lay of the Land is a modern American masterpiece. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; General; ISBN: 0747581886. ISBN/EAN: 9780747581888. Inventory No: 13080302. The photo of this book is of the actual book for sale. Seller Inventory # 13080302

About this Item: Knopf, New York, 2006. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. First edition, first printing. A fine book in a fine dust jacket. A pristine, unread copy. Signed by the author. Seller Inventory # 28015